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1. mgaldys4 · 1790086411 · focus · HN ↗

   Even the Millennium Prize Problems have, in a way, become benchmarks for model companies to prove themselves. The smartest individuals among humans are becoming replaceable. Intelligence has become a product you can quantify and buy with electricity. That feels awful.

   1. skeledrew · 1790087262 · focus · HN ↗

      > That feels awful

      Only if you subscribe to the "humans are special" rhetoric, in which case I'm - maybe - sorry to say the feeling will only intensify.

      1. dsign · 1790088855 · focus · HN ↗

         Upvoted. I think that said humans should get used to the idea that their intellect is special only insofar as it was first, and if they want to adopt or invent a value system that keeps them at the center, that's actually fine and good for their survival. But said humans would do well to stop laboriously and curmudgeonly moving the posts that mark the goals, and get busy trying to coax the AI to do useful things for them and for the species as a whole.

         1. Ygg2 · 1790090444 · focus · HN ↗

            > Upvoted. I think that said humans should get used to the idea that their intellect is special only insofar as it was first

            And used to build the LLMs of today. We'll see how that evolves once LLMs have to feed LLMs with their own "intellect".

            1. suddenlybananas · 1790092394 · focus · HN ↗

               What did humans build off of but themselves?

               1. Ygg2 · 1790096095 · focus · HN ↗

                  LLMs are not humans. It's good to remember that. They're also not God.

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